I don’t see any life-threatening results being reported, but a coronal mass ejection event could take down most of the internet for months, as well as damaging the GPS system and electric power grids.
In my house there’s this light switch that doesn’t do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, ‘Cut it out.’
― Steven Wright
Way off the OP topic, but when I was in college (late 80s) in NJ, I worked part time at a liquor store in a sketchy part of town. There was a separate NJ Lottery booth in the way back corner of the store. One night I was working the front register and a brand new hire was working the lottery booth. It was late and there were no customers in the store when two police officers came bursting in with hands on their holsters asking me if we were being robbed. I said no, there were no customers at all at the moment. One of the officers replied that someone had hit the silent alarm button multiple times. The woman working the lottery booth shouted out, “Is that what that button does?” The manager had not explained the alarm to her and in her boredom she just pressed it a few times. The officers were not amused.
It’s too bad the silent alarm button doesn’t ring an annoying bell or something.
What?
If all stores had a sound just like an alarm that automatically went off every 5 minutes, the actual alarm would not need to be silent, because it would sound the same and the crooks would not know it was going off.
I couldn’t listen to my book through audible online yesterday. Thankfully I had a copy downloaded on my phone already. Other than that, no issues, Google provides all of my work services.
And the staff would be driven to madness hearing an alarm 12 times an hour for a whole shift.
Ok, every 10 minutes then.
Not funny. Trust me, retail environments are quite noisy and stressful enough without blaring noises DESIGNED to elicit adrenaline over and over and over…
I wonder if that would be better or worse than hearing “It’s a Small World After All” every four minutes…
I just checked with the major of Manaus and he has told me the Amazon has just been flowing as always for the last days. It’s the end of the dry season and very humid. Nothing to see here, move on.
There is a thread about first world problems you should report this to.
My neighbour had a car like that.
That was uncalled-for. Anyway, I didn’t say it was a problem; I was simply describing the way the Amazon AWS outage affected me, per the OP’s question.
I remember this story. SFW
My apologies, I did not mean it like that.
Ok. 
I’m guessing those calls came from the company’s boiler room 
Ba-dump!
Unplug your router, so you still have Wi-Fi but no internet, and check? Tbh, I think it would be a terrible design choice to make internet access mandatory for such basic services…
AFAIK, Echo has just enough smarts to recognize “Alexa” – the rest is internet magic. I
have noticed a noticeable lag with Alexa’s responses, not just in controlling the lights, when the internet connection is spotty.
OTOH, I believe the Gosund app is strictly local – if my phone and the lamp still have a WiFi connection, I can control it through the app. I switched the bulbs from FEIT to Gosund when after an app update, the FEIT app would no longer connect with the bulbs, and Alexa couldn’t control them either. There were a slew of complaints in the Google store with the same complaint and after three weeks of email back and forth with FEIT and nothing helpful, I switched them out, threw them away, and for a while afterward would sharpie Do not buy - app sucks on the boxes of bulbs in CostCo where I’d bought them.
The only exception I know to this is that alarms are stored locally on the device, which is a good exception to have, since I use my Echo as my morning alarm…